Small bowel transplant - novel indications and recent progress.

Introduction: Advances in the management of intestinal failure have led to a reduction in the number of intestinal transplants. The number of bowel transplants has been mainly stable even though a slight increase has been observed in the last 5 years.

Areas Covered: Standard indication includes patients with a reasonable life expectancy.

Immunosuppression, Compliance, and Tolerance After Orthotopic Liver Transplantation: State of the Art.

Orthotopic liver transplantation is the treatment of choice for several otherwise irreversible forms of acute and chronic liver diseases. Early implemented immunosuppressant regimens have had disappointing results with high rejection rates. However, new drugs have reduced the daily immunosuppression requirements, thereby improving graft and patient survival as well as kidney function.

Sheep in Wolf's Clothing: Pedunculated Colonic Lipoma with Overlying Hyperplastic and Ulcerated Epithelium.

Introduction: Lipomas are the most common non-epithelial benign tumors of the gastrointestinal tract with a reported incidence in the colon of 0.2-4.4%.